Sunflower seeds
August 27, 2012 • Category: Mezze/Appetizers
If you are wondering what one does when vacationing in the Lebanese mountains, this is one activity; plucking seeds from sunflowers and eating them raw with a six-year old niece who is just as eager as I to partake in the fun.
I was trying to show Marie (said niece) how to extract the seed by gnawing on their black shell with one’s front two teeth; her response was: “but look, Tante Joumana, I lost my two front teeth!”, with a bin grin to show me that indeed they were gone. Well, Marie, being a resourceful child, said: “No problem, I will use my side teeth!”.
Crunch, crunch, crunch.
Just wait a bit for your sunflowers to be ripe to get their seeds picked.
Did you know the sunflower seeds contain 52% of iron? (per 100 g.) and 230% of Vitamin E? (Wikipedia)
A great recipe for roasted (and salted) sunflower seeds is found here.
Comments
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T.W. Barritt says:
Are you pulling the seeds from the center of the flower? I never thought about harvesting sunflower seeds in the field. Must be the peak of freshness!
On August 28, 2012 at 4:25 am
Joumana says:
@T.W. you just pluck them out, one seed at a time; I’m sure there’s a more efficient way though! 🙂
@Scott: any time! 🙂
On August 28, 2012 at 5:26 am
Belinda @zomppa says:
I adore these…especially chocolate-covered ones!
On August 28, 2012 at 5:33 am
Scott Thaler says:
They look delicious! Never tried them raw..will have to come and visit to have a handful.!
On August 28, 2012 at 9:40 am
kashgar says:
trying raw sunflower seed is quite good, in some way it tastes like raw walnut. If you fry it in the pot with some salt on it, it also becomes more tasty as well.
On August 29, 2012 at 6:26 am
Heavy Hedonist says:
Ha! The squirrels usually get most of my sunflower seeds before I notice they’re ready to harvest.
On August 29, 2012 at 10:10 am
Juliana says:
I never roasted sunflower seeds, my husband loves these seed 🙂
Nice pictures Joumana…hope you are having a nice week!
On August 29, 2012 at 3:44 pm
Isabelle says:
Très amusante cette cueillette avec Marie 🙂 je ne savais pas que les graines de tournesol étaient aussi riches en fer et vit.E. Merci.
On September 3, 2012 at 2:53 am
Nada says:
Hello… please where can i find the sunflower fields in lebanon????🙈 Thank you
On August 15, 2017 at 7:17 pm
Help please says:
Did you find where???
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On March 11, 2020 at 9:53 pm